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This module is designed to foster learning outcomes for students to (1) become well versed in the urgent scholarly and practice-led debates relating to the politics of difference in the contexts of contemporary collective social justice actions, (2) develop skills necessary for effective critical social analysis of solidarity encounters, politics and transformative interventions, and (3) explore, and ideally, cultivate practices of self and collective reflexivity that can be used and shared in on-the-ground mobilisational contexts.
Indicative Module Content:This course seeks to encourage the exploration and cultivation of critical scholarship and practices regarding solidary relations, collective actions and societal transformations.
It delves into the examination of the relational dynamics, politics and practices that underpin – and often determine the course of -- social justice mobilisations. It focuses on the questions: How does solidarity actually evolve? What constitutes solidary relations? In what ways can personal, political, cultural differences and circumstances – which are often vast, contradictory and in tension with each other – be negotiated and even maintained while working collectively? How can collective actors cultivate the skills of critical reflexivity and social analysis necessary to effectively engage in this type of work?
We will draw on and draw together a range of theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary scholarship – eg., social movements, transnational/Black/queer feminisms, indigenous and decolonial studies.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 12 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 12 |
Conversation Class | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities | 100 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 85 |
Total | 221 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: A critical account of solidarity concepts and potential practices based on experiential work and drawing on course literature. 1500-2000 words. | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 25 |
Portfolio: A portfolio of weekly assignments; a multi-media space for working through - and sometimes exchanging or presenting - ideas, issues, debates re: the course objectives and materials | Week 7 | n/a | Graded | No | 45 |
Group Project: A small group empirical case study exploring and analysing key issues, debates, practices and scholarship involving a collective action/movement of students' choice | Week 12 | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities
This module is guided by what is referred to as a 'lived curriculum' (Aoki) - the curriculum-as-planned and what evolves in the lives of those participating in the module over the course of the trimester. Thus much of the coursework is on-going through the semester in response to and conversation with the weekly syllabus, what emerges during the course through collective class engagement with the experiential work, and the continual effects of wider social movement/collective actions and social changes taking place outside of the classroom. Each type of assessment plays a role in different, key module topics, objectives and activities. In all cases, students will receive guidance as they are engaging with their assignments and developing the visual, written and performed work, and will receive feedback from me upon their completion; in some cases, where appropriate, relevant and agreed, and because a collective 'community of practice' dynamic will be cultivated as part of the learning environment, this will involve reflection, response and feedback from peers.